Random quote: I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations - Lana Wood - (Added by: Chris)

It seems that maybe the RR staff have just lost some interest in the forum in recent times, thus the lack of forum activity or any response from them. Even the other moderators haven't been on here for months (or even years in one case).

I can check, but I'm sure you need to have full admin privileges to be able to delete user accounts on a MegaBBS forum which I doubt any non RR staff member will be given as those privileges also allow you to change (and potentially screw up) the structure and configuration of the forum.

It should be possible to write a bulk post deletion program/script that could be run externally by someone with moderator permissions who has the ability to delete posts. That would at least then take the monotony out of having to do individual deletes. I'm a bit snowed at the moment but I've got a local install of the MegaBBS software on my PC that I used to implement and test a reCaptcha challenge/response a few years back when registering a new account, but if I can find some spare time I'll give it a shot.

If a cat comes into our back garden and takes a shit, then it takes a shit. I'll pick it up, but I wont go out and pick up cat shit from the same cats for the rest of my life. I'll deal with the cat.

16 guests. There is a reduction in interest in this forum which is a great shame but this is largely attributable to the high level of spam now. I'm not coming on every day and picking up cat shit when the cat should have been dealt with months ago.

I've offered to remove all offending accounts. RR aren't willing to do that or provide admin rights for me to do that. 3 DMs to Chris haven't been read, 3 emails to RR haven't been responded to. One direct email to Chris hasn't been responded to. Gary is possibly correct when he says that there is no interest from RR any more. Great shame in my opinion - used to be a great forum for advice and banter. Is that why your mouse is laffin' Raffi?

Instead of some taking the piss - why don't you all assist and send an email to Chris and tell him that you're fed up with regular spam too and that you believe that this is spoiling a once-great forum? As a moderator I look on this forum at least 3 times a day. You may not see that in the logs because I - for one - can't be arsed to delete up to 80 spam messages in a morning. I have 2 businesses to run.

Assistance Gents please if you're bothered? Mark on this thread that you've contacted RR/Chris too? I'm not going to keep picking up cat shit from these regulars.

If a cat comes into our back garden and takes a shit, then it takes a shit. I'll pick it up, but I wont go out and pick up cat shit from the same cats for the rest of my life. I'll deal with the cat.

16 guests. There is a reduction in interest in this forum which is a great shame but this is largely attributable to the high level of spam now. I'm not coming on every day and picking up cat shit when the cat should have been dealt with months ago.

I've offered to remove all offending accounts. RR aren't willing to do that or provide admin rights for me to do that. 3 DMs to Chris haven't been read, 3 emails to RR haven't been responded to. One direct email to Chris hasn't been responded to. Gary is possibly correct when he says that there is no interest from RR any more. Great shame in my opinion - used to be a great forum for advice and banter. Is that why your mouse is laffin' Raffi?

Instead of some taking the piss - why don't you all assist and send an email to Chris and tell him that you're fed up with regular spam too and that you believe that this is spoiling a once-great forum? As a moderator I look on this forum at least 3 times a day. You may not see that in the logs because I - for one - can't be arsed to delete up to 80 spam messages in a morning. I have 2 businesses to run.

Assistance Gents please if you're bothered? Mark on this thread that you've contacted RR/Chris too? I'm not going to keep picking up cat shit from these regulars.

Like other have said this used to be a grate place to exchange information for me since the website change and now all the spam its not even worth checking any more and to hear
others have tried to help and contact Chris and nothing happens is disappointing.

Update: I managed to get a response in the end via Twitter. Next day I was contacted by Chris who has promised a response soon. It appears that Admin were in the site yesterday pm but no spam was removed. I've now deleted it all again - mostly the same old spammers from Korea, Pakistan, etc.

It would be good to get these accounts deleted once and for all and reduce this nonsense. Gary and I have the skills to add updates to this old .asp site to stop a lot of spam in its tracks, whether this would be allowed remains to be seen..

So it looks like the spammers were busy again last night. 85 new spam posts by "wip" and "Myloveryou".

and some have been deleted. I will get to the rest in due course this weekend, it will take an hour or more of time to do this. To have the tools to do this in one hit would be useful. To have the permissions to remove these frequent spammers would be of immense help. Gary and I have the skills to assist..

Update:
I have emailed Chris once again having received no reply to my previous email. I have added a read receipt and marked it high priority.

I will approach RR via Twitter again, that appeared to get a timely response last time.

As was privately suggested to me, perhaps business is not so good at the moment and the focus for RR isn't on this forum? I've been around here for 7 years and many guys - for much longer. It would be a shame to see it fold.

I have been trying for 4 months now to get a logical response. I apologise for the spam but there is nothing that I can do, other than access the site 3, often 4 times a day, and to retrospectively remove it.

may I suggest that you good folks email Chris to possibly jolt RR into action? Chris [at] realrussia.co.uk

quick update: RR have promised us assistance from 'inside the company' to stop the spam. A number of repeating spammer accounts have now been deleted and it might be noticeable that spam is so far reduced.

obviously RR staff can't be expected to work weekends and we might have to wade through 80+ hits for a few hours again.